Book Reading Thread

I'm making this thread to post the books I want to read and mark through what I have finished reading as a sort of motivational tool. Feel free to post your own reading interests, as well as any insights you might have from what you've been reading so far.


Books to read in English:

̶C̶r̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶P̶u̶n̶i̶s̶h̶m̶e̶n̶t̶

The Brothers Kamarazov

Shakespeare plays (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacBeth)

East of Eden

The Republic

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Gulag Archipelago

Paradise Lost

Books to read in German:
Die Nebel von Avalon

Siddhartha

Der Mythos von Sisyphus

1984

Dämonen

Der Idiot

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Im Ersten Kreis

Die Krebsstation

Ein Tag im Leben des Iwan Denissowitsch

Schuld und Sühne

 

Nice thread ..
I will share my book here . Can I share ?

 

Yes! That’s what I made the thread for.

 

The books I have read !

• The monk who sold his ferrari
• The power of your subconscious mind
• Atomic Habits
• Inner Engineering
• Memory Book
• Super Power Memory
• Memory Mastery
• Remember it !
• A mind for number
• Rich Dad Poor Dad
• How to influence friends and people
• Wise and Otherwise

Reading List :

• Do Epic Shit
• 7 Habits of highly effective people

 

Now it's time to apply all the technics I have learnt so far

 

I'm like three-fourths through Brothers Karamazov, and I'm so glad Sparknotes exist so I can understand the book at a level higher than just recalling events. I really love the Grand Inquisitor chapter and how simple action by Alyosha contrasts the story. I'll definitely bring this book with me to Germany to reread. Actually, it is mentioned in Camus' essay on the absurd, which I'm reading right now in German. So it's nice to see ideas being revisited in other works.

 

Book finished! Thank you Sparknotes for giving me the clarity to understand Dostoyevsky's work.

Books to read in English:

̶C̶r̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶P̶u̶n̶i̶s̶h̶m̶e̶n̶t̶

̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶B̶r̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶K̶a̶r̶a̶m̶a̶z̶o̶v̶

Shakespeare plays (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacBeth)

East of Eden

The Republic

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Gulag Archipelago

Paradise Lost

The City of God

 

Completed the four Shakespeare plays. I decided to get a copy of Julius Caesar since I read it in high school. I've expanded my list of books to read so I can have more books about Mars colonization and the different configurations pertaining to it. That way, I can be more informed if I write a science fiction book.

Books to read in English:

̶C̶r̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶P̶u̶n̶i̶s̶h̶m̶e̶n̶t̶

̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶B̶r̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶K̶a̶r̶a̶m̶a̶z̶o̶v̶

̶S̶h̶a̶k̶e̶s̶p̶e̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶s̶ ̶(̶H̶a̶m̶l̶e̶t̶,̶ ̶O̶t̶h̶e̶l̶l̶o̶,̶ ̶K̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶L̶e̶a̶r̶,̶ ̶M̶a̶c̶B̶e̶t̶h̶)̶

East of Eden

Stranger In a Strange Land

The Republic

Red Mars

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

I, Iago

The Gulag Archipelago

The Martian Chronicles

Paradise Lost

The Expanse

The City of God

 

Yo, I also have Daily Stoic. If you care, there's also The Practicing Stoic by Ward Farnsworth, who was the UT law dean a couple years ago. He's written extensively on stuff like rhetoric, literature, and chess, and I absolutely love his presentation of Stoic philosophy.